I mean, what did you do? Go in and say "Got any messed up birdies that I can get cheap?"

No...alot of it was luck of the draw

When I went to get the Java Sparrows there was a cage holding about twenty of them, I got the ones that the vendor could get out first....it was at random...pretty much the same with the Quail.

These remember are surplus stock for breeders...which means they are considered not of the quality the Breeder wants to keep for either breeding on, or, in most cases, probably for training to be show birds.